Scott

Canucks,Blazers,Mariners,Seahawks,Longhorns,Formula 1,VI born. “Sometimes a hard days work is easier than a lot of things’s you can meet in life” - Chris Ledoux

[San Jose Sharks @SanJoseSharks]

Congratulations to the Sharks legend! 👏🦈

[Mike Martignago @MikeMartignago]

France v Iraq suspended due to inclement weather.

You know where they wouldn’t have to suspend the match?

[Scott @Chemainiac]

@HockeyHallFame @NHL @HockeyCanada @usahockey Hope Keith doesn’t trash his hotel room and where the hell’s Roddy B?

[Scott @Chemainiac]

@chrispronger I wonder how his acting career is going? Haha

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Make your father proud by knowing it’s ‘Father’s Day,’ with an apostrophe.

[Ed Normann @IanEdNorman]

Seeing the fan culture at this World Cup, bars being drunk dry, fans out about soaking up the cities they’re in and making an impression on the locals makes you realise how utterly shit Qatar 2022 was.

[Scott @Chemainiac]

Kam and Lewis Hamilton should be buddies

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

LA Rams star Kam Curl says it's "crazy" that NFL players are expected to pay full price for World Cup tickets

"It's crazy, y'all at our stadium"

[Scott @Chemainiac]

Glad to have Cal back #Mariners

[Scott @Chemainiac]

Logan finishing third is something he can hang his hat on. Good on him.

[Stephen Whyno @SWhyno]

Here are the voting totals for the Conn Smythe Trophy, as released by @thePHWA: https://t.co/msloHabgKZ

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Interesting storyline for NHL Finals: Carolina Hurricanes GM Eric Tulsky has a PhD in Chemistry from Berkeley.

Before joining them in 2014, he was offered a job with Apple to work on battery tech (but turned it down).

Started in the analytics department and since hired neuroscientists and mechanical engineers for the NHL team.

The Athletic profile has this anecdote:

➡️ “In 2021, Tulsky was the Carolina Hurricanes assistant GM and had built a small analytics department in the organization, with a web developer, a data engineer and a neuroscientist helping him lead the team’s push into new frontiers for the sport.

But because of what he saw in the tracking data, Tulsky believed his next addition needed to be someone who was working on autonomous vehicles — perhaps “a robot submarine,” he says now — and had an advanced mechanical engineering background.

“I knew that that was the kind of problem that put people thinking about the kinds of data that we had and the kinds of problems we faced,” Tulsky explained.

It goes without saying that there aren’t many robot submarine engineers working in NHL front offices. So Tulsky began a deep search through universities’ mechanical engineering departments.

He would scour the faculty listing and professors’ research interests to see if they might align with what he was looking for, then reach out to learn more about their work. He started with the top schools in Canada, reasoning that there was a greater chance he would find someone interested in working on a hockey problem.

And that was how an NHL team came to fund the PhD research of a young engineering student named Jonathan Arsenault at McGill University in Montreal.

His thesis, the first to be backed by a professional hockey team? “Quantitative Analysis of Hockey Using Spatiotemporal Tracking Data.” ⬅️

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NYT/The Athletic: https://t.co/EgO3Qoo6Wq

[Scott @Chemainiac]

It’s so painful listening to Gary Bettman try and speak #NHL

[NHLMuse @NHL_Muse]

Leafs fans watching Mitch Marner lose the Stanley Cup

[BCLionsDen 🇨🇦 🍁 @BCLionsDen]

Since people only seem to do this when they are empty, I would like to point out the stands in Montreal are packed tonight. #CFL

[Scott @Chemainiac]

Loyalty is gone

[Marty Hastings @MarTheReporter]

Blazers GM/HC Clouston says Behm, Lafreniere heading off to NCAA ranks next season, along with Evaschesen, Hurlbert. Exodus of four top-six forwards leaves club with huge holes to fill.

[Scott @Chemainiac]

@nascarman_rr Was he dating Jessie Spano at the time?

[Matt Baker @BakesTakes84]

Trailer, 1st and Now podcast, Roar Report, Cover 3, post practice scrums. We have it all ahead of tonight’s game at our website. Get primed 👇

https://t.co/935UByLgAp

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Sir….the Japanese World Cup tourists discovered Texas Roadhouse and are calling it the "best cost-performance steak"

[Scott @Chemainiac]

This team man. Blows a lead then Randy goes yard for 2 more on the board. #Mariners

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

GO-AHEAD GARV 💣

[Memarzadeh @ArashMemarzadeh]

A lot of Babcock discourse will be around recent Marner/cellphone gate stories, but here’s a reminder of the Johan Franzen story that @JasonGregor mentions from @HeleneStJames herself in 2019.

Chelios played 1,651 games in the NHL, so understand the weight of his words here.